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. . \r At l.i v pfo. 13. 5 §ab:mtrab ||tralb 18 VOBU3HKD * gyKKY EVENING, SUNDAYS EXCEPTED, BT ft*. W. M.YBON <fe CO. Ar 111 Bay SraEiar, S.WANKjfca, Georgia. t»h«h: per Copy.. Five Cents. Pci Hundred $3 Per Year $lO 00. ADVERTIZING: A limited number of Advertisements will be re ceived at the vats of Twenty Cent* per Line for liist insertion,and Fifteen Cents per Line for each Bnbseqnen insertion ; Invariably in advance. Ad vertisements shon’d be handed in before noon of each day. J Os? PRINTING In every style, neatly and promptly done. THE € CERILLA MOSEBY. A correspondent gives tlie following sketch of the guerrilla Moseby: John Singleton Moseby was bom m Virginia, in 18*52. Nothing is known of Ills youthful career. His early achieve ments in the war were of an insignificant character. His operations eluting the winters of 1862-63, in harassing our troops encamped near Fredericksburg, were approved by General Lee in an of ficial report of the winter’s operations of Ms army In consequence of these ser vices Lieutenant Moseby was promoted a Major. In March, 1803, he captured General Stoughton, at Fairfax Court House, and gained his first notoriety at the North. In the ensuing August he attacked the 2d Massachusetts Cavalry at Coyle's t avern, near Fairfax, Ya., and received a painful wound. He was un able to resume active duty until January 1834, when (January 10) he was repulsed in an attack made upon one of our camps at Loudon Heights, Va. On February 13, 18C1, he ambushed a small force under Captain Reid, near Dranes ville, killing and wounding twenty of our men. He was some months after (August 29) again wounded, and remain ed idle until October 0, 18(>i, when he again made himself famous among the Rebels by attack oh the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at New Creek, Virginia, for which achievement, on Lee’s reocmmer.dation, he was promoted Lieutenant Colonel. On October 14 his camp near Piedmont, Ya., was surprised Iyy Colonel Gansevoort, of the 13th New York Cavalry,, and his force dispersed. During the campaign in the Valley, between Sheridap and Early, Moseby figured extensively. November Ihe was routed near Salem. On the 21st of the same month he was again wounded.— December 1 he was in Richmond, nurs ing his wounds and begging for promo tion. This came on December 10, and He was recognized by the Rebel Govern ment as a full Colonel in its army. The particulars of his killing are given iD the Rebel accounts. The following Intercepted Rebel letter will give some idea of the habits of the man and of his mode of warfare! Paris, Virginia, November 28.—The command of which Lieutenant Colonel John S. Moseby is the recognized leader is divided into six parts, * respectively Commanded as follows: Captain I). Richards, Captain Mountjoy, Captain William Chapman. Captain Samuel Chapman, Captain Peter Franklin, Lieu tenant Hatcher. The whole force is recognized as a battalion. Willie Mose by,' a pleasing young man of about twenty summers, and a brother of John 8. Moseby, is adjutant of the battalion. Willie does not go on raids. Lieutenant, Walter Franklin is the present commis nary of the battalion. An officer “famil iarly styled’’ Major Hibbs is said to be the quartermaster. Lieut. John Russell is Moseby’s main scout for the valley. Moseby, when out upon a raid wears l>is uniform—the stars upon the collar of SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 25, 1865. his coat and a gold lace braid upon the sides of his pantaloons. lie swears a great deal, and does not, as a generality, treat his men kindly. At Holland’s fac tory is where Moseby generally stays himself. He boards at Dick Auckner’s. His wife also boards here. She is a middle- aged woman, and rather hand some. Moseby is with her often. He always carries a small pewter whistle with him for signaling. It. is fastened to a guard placed around his neck. When his men are concealed in the bushes a low whistle is given to “make ready,*’and a keen whistle to “charge.” He lately received a battle flag and bugle, and the report is his com mand will go into Early's regular cavalry sen 1 ice during the winter. He is well off for greenbacks since he captured those paymasters on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line. When the plunder secured on that occasion came to be di vided up every officer and man who as sisted got $ 1922 60. A good deal of this money you have already got. back. 1 will tel * you how 7 . Old men and women," residents in the neighborhood of Upperville, who have gone within your lines and taken the Oath of allegiance, have been sent by Mosby and many of his men to Berlin to purchase goods, such as hats, etc., arid iiave paid for these in the captured green backs and got the goods oof to the bat talion. Moseby has a sutler who goes quite often to Alexandria to buy goods for his command He is an Irishman by birth. He has brought out, among other goods, white bats, with long black plumes at tached. Moseby rides a blooded sorrel, and sometimes a big, bay. The sorrel is the swiftest animal in either army. He does not drink any whiskey. He does dot allow any ot his.men to drink whiskey. He sent two men off into the regular ser vice for being intoxicated on inspection. An order from a Federal general reach ed Captain Moseby at Berryville. The order is in relation to .the Winchester Railroad. Mountjoy read the order to his men, laughed over it, and put it in his pocket with the remark that lie would show it to the colonel. - The order readi ed him last Sunday morning. He was surprised about noon of that day. Ido not think Moseby will interfere the with railroad, out of regard to the property of the citizens living adjacent to it. Myseby’s command is not liked by the soldiers of the regular Confederate ser vice, but both Moseby and his men stand high at Richmond. They are armed only with pistols. All of Moseby’s men have their regular boarding houses among the farmers. Two and three of them not unfrequently board at one bouse. When the Federal scouting parties come along,* tlie Confederates take to the mountains. During the time that General Augur and his troops were upon the Piedmont Railroad line, the Confederates of Moseby’s command spent most of their time in the moun tains. “Short Whist,” says a descendant ol Mrs. Battle, whose opinions on the game are very generally known, “ is a rubber, where two, oiff of four, are hard-up players, unable to* settle the.*; losses. This is very ‘short whist ’*” “Long whist,” acids this excellent matron, “is Mr. Battle’s constant excuse lor coming home from his club at four o’cloak in the morning.” The following notice of a panper’s fmieral from the Winst and. Conn.. Herald is worthy of Dickens: * Exchanged his poverty for eternal riches, and his lor a crown which lauetn nit away—at Winchester poor-house. Nov. C, 1864, dames C. S'nutk, bearers were few on thle side—not so many per haps as ..they that waited on the •ahining t-hore’ aud went up with the old mac to iu* ‘l-'aihcT’s house.’ ** The Newsboy and his Enterprise.— The Louisville Journal has the following sharp article: We frequently have ob served persons stop a newsboy on the street, take a paper from him, deliberate ly read the despatches, with the ragged young urchin waiting impatiently, look ing wistfully up into the cold, hard face, and often shivering in the cold, and then return the paper to him and pass on without purchasing it. Do such persons justly consider how much they are rob - bing the newsboys by an aet of this kind ? Tlie papers are individual property of the boy. He has purchased them at the office, paid his money for them, and if he does not sell them the loss results to him and him alone. They are his ex clusive property. He buys them for the news that they contain, and for the news he sells them to parties on the streets.— It is to his interest to be detaineJ in his sales as little as possible. Tele graphic news is in demand so long as it is fresh from the wires and the press room ~ It is soon read, soon digested, and almost as soon forgotten. In effect ing its sales, with more than a hundred different competitors on the streets, the boy must move rapidly and make his bargains with great despatch. Every minute is precious to him, An edition is often sold in less than a quarter of an hour alter it leaves the counting room. Then, when an individual slops a news- Ixiy on the street, detains him while he reads the despatches, and returns the paper to him, without buying it, he not only robs the young speculator of the ! news of a single paper, but perhaps of the time in which he could effect the sales of a half-dozen more. The loss is to 4l*e boy alone- the poor shivering urchin, who struggles with poverty, and, perhaps, by his exertions and profits, supports a mother, and keeps want from the door of the humble home. We write this brief article for the benefit of the newsboy: we plead in his behalf alone, for the sale of his papers is his own business, and his profit and losses do not effect the publisher the value of a single cent. Be just to the young spec ulator, honor his energy and enterprise, and rather assist than retard him in his operations.” The Story of Certain Hymns.— Hymns have been sometimes curiously used in stirring times, especially about the Reformation period, more than*once the Ilomish preachers have been compelled to abandon the pulpit by the vigorous singing of one of Luther’s. They have played their part in battle. A.t the fa mous Battle of Lutzen, one of Her mann’s hymns was raised by a regiment before going into the fight, and one after another took*it up, until ali tlie column ■were singing it as they advanced. — ‘Shall I silence them?” the General asked, as he rode up to stern, tobacco loving, heroic Ki ig Fritz. “No ; with such soldiers God will give me the vic tory,” and leaping down among the ranks and crying “Now 7 , children, in God's name,” ho led them into battle. When the battle was won the field was strewn with dead and wounded ; it was night, and trie soldiers were weary.— Then one began to sing a hymn of thanksgiving, the bands joined in, and presently it rose from the army in full and mighty chorus that reached mid greatly moved the King, who turned round, ex claiming, “What a power there ip is in religion !” It w T ns at the great battle ot Leipsic that Gus tavus Adol phus sang, with his army, lannen llero icuni, and after that he thanked God for the victory in a stanza of the same hymn. The Tt Deum won the fight at Leignitz ; it was a “Poor Sinner's Song’ of Luther’s tnat the peasant raised be- , fore the battle of Frankenhausen ; and j brave Earl Oldcnburgh triumphed at; DruJkenburough by the rong of Simeon. So curiously are the lives of these j hymns interwoven with fiercest human struggles and profoundest human joys, with kings and politics and famous' battles that determined the fate of king doms, with poor peasant and lonely and nameless households, with crimes that leave trie reddest stains in history, and softening of rugged and wild hearts And it is pleasant to take up a hymn that has connected itself with past events, and can be traced into many * house and heart by its comfortabli thoughts. Herbersts hymn on Sunday gains a certain mournful delicacy, when we know that lie sung it himself upon h:s death-bed ; that *•1 ka a sweet swart, be warbles, he dies. His Makers praise and his own obsequies.” Gerhardt himself died repeating one ot his own hymns, and even with trie ver\ words, 4 Him no death has ilower to kill.’' And there is a touching legend, bv which, as King Christian of Denmark lay sick at Christmas lime, an angel came to him in a dream and told him he could live but eight days And on New Year’s day, bis chaplain preached him a farewell sermon ; but w hen his courtiers would not sing death-songs over him, he cried, “Then will I sing myself, end you with me, aud it shall be said the King of Denmaik sung him self to the grave.” And lie lifted up his voice, clear and strong, and they sang the song of Simeon, but as they sung ho . fell asleep jn Jesus. The Atlantic TkiJegraih Cahle.- A late issue of the l»ndon Daily News says—‘Yesterday morning the new At lantic. cable was commenced being coil ed frofci the company’-'premises (late* Glass, Elliott & Cos., ) Morden Wharf Greenwich, on board the Amethyst Ad miralty vessel, for eonveance to the Great Eastern at Klk ernes?. The. neces sity of keeping trie cable constantly im*-* der water has led. to the erection of eigh enorm us tanks on the company's prem ises, into which tlie cable is daily being coiled from eight corresponding dosing, machines, at the rate of 80 miles pm - ■week. • From these tank- it was, for tin first time yesterday, ; van Terri.! vj tanks on board (he Amethyst which will Yrz'tiJ i 110 miles. 1 Another vessel, named the Iris, aho lent by trie Admiralty from Chatham.; Dockyard, has been altered and fitted with tanks, which will hold 158 miles. The coiling from the premises on board the Amethyst is proceeding nt the rate ol two miles per hour. The Great Easter. , has been fitted with five large tanks, and will occupy three days in the cable from the Amethyst to that vessel. The distance from The vest coast of Ireland to Trinity Bay is H'»o(k nautical miles, and the length ofe&blt in preparation is 2300 knots, leaving Too knots for inequalities at the bottom of the ocean and other contingencies. The cable will be laid .across the Atlantic by Messrs Canning and Clifford to June next. The Greet Eastern will have hands on board, with a weight of 15,500 tons, including 1,500 tons of cable and 8,000 tons oi coal,” “On a Bkndkh ”—After the batik a>\. *. Pultowa, Charles XII. of Sweden,forced to flv to Turkey, took up his residence at tinder, but became after a while ob noxious to the Porte, end was ordered to depart, which he i mused to do, and was attacked by twenty thousand Turkish janissaries and Tartars. He attempted to cut his way through the whole force, in broad daylight, with only twenty. m< i\ mostly domestics, to back him. O* course he came to grief. So the phrase . “On a bender. ! came to be applied to young men who, under the i> fiueucc of trial <up winch inehr af».> somewhat mor. than it cheers, under took to cut tlidr way through iu)gr_. bodied policemen. T toe phrase dichi„ originate in that way. how did ft < j PRICE (Five Centos